Affidavit filed by the Chief Wildlife Warden, Assam in the matter of news item titled "the last feral horses in India" appearing in Mongabay, November 5, 2024. The matter relates to the critically endangered status of feral horses in the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park as well as of smuggling of these …
The West Bengal government for the first time will conduct tiger census through DNA sampling of the animal's scat in Sunderbans in January next year. Till now, pug marks were used to count the tigers, but there was always controversy regarding the veracity. During the 2006 census, the state government …
Kolkata: With an Indian Statistical Institute analysis raising doubts over the number of tigers in the Sunderbans, a fresh census of the big cat will be conducted this winter.
Some of the most inaccessible and extremism-affected tiger reserves in India are set to get a booster shot: all the way from Scotland. The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), through its Indian Foundation, is putting in a 1 million pound grant for the rehabilitation of forest based communities around Simlipal, …
Ananya Dutta KOLKATA: Living in the inter-tidal habitat among marshy thickets, having become accustomed to the saline water, and but often without the trademark element of surprise, the Royal Bengal Tiger of the Sunderbans may have evolved differently from its brethren in peninsular India, according to experts here. Forest Department …
Ananya Dutta KOLKATA: Five incidents of tigers straying into villages in the Sundarbans in the last six weeks have caused concern among the officials of the Forest Department. Opinions differ on whether cyclone Aila was responsible for the behaviour of the tigers.
Ananya Dutta Kolkata: The big cats of the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve that stray into inhabited areas will be tracked with the help of an electronic microchip implanted in their bodies, Reserve Director N.C. Bahuguna said here on Thursday. A pregnant tigress, captured by employees of the reserve on Tuesday night, …
In what could rouse both suspicion and relief, a State-level committee constituted by the Chief Wildlife Warden of West Bengal on the directions of the Centre to assess the damage caused to the Sundarbans Tiger Reserve by cyclone Aila, has claimed there were
Kolkata: As the cyclone-fuelled tides kept large parts of the mangrove forest inundated amid rising fears about the fate of tigers and prey animals, the forest department launched an emergency assessment survey in the Sunderbans on Wednesday. Forest guard teams and members of the local forest protection committees (FPS) fanned …
Calcutta, May 25: At least 300 captive deer were swept away as the cyclone battered the fragile Sunderban mangroves and foresters were worried that there might have been heavy losses to wildlife. The deer washed away by the floodwaters were housed in two government-run breeding centres at Jharkhali and Bakkhali.
Sabyasachi Roy KOLKATA, March. 9 : The wildlife wing of the state forest department is putting its faith in new state-of-the-art information and communication technology to protect wildlife and reduce crime in the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve. According to a senior official of the wildlife wing, the mangrove eco-system is being …
A workshop on marine protected areas in India suggested ways to achieve livelihood-sensitive conservation and management of coastal and fisheries resources.
KOLKATA, Dec. 31: With the incidence of tigers straying into human settlements increasing, the state forest department has decided to put up nylon fencing for nearly 10 km. In addition, the department has also taken the decision of implementing a management system in the buffer zone similar to the one …
The Sundarbans of India and Bangladesh is the only mangrove in the world where tigers still live. The Sundarbans has been under various forms of management for about 2,000 years, and is classified as a Tiger Conservation Landscape of Global Priority. Little is known about the Sundarbans tigers, which are …
Kolkata Oct. 7: The post-mortem report of the Royal Bengal Tiger, whose body was found floating in a canal at the core area of Sundarbans on Monday evening, revealed that the big cat was killed. Preliminary post-mortem report claims that the tiger had died due to bullet injuries. State forest …
Tigers attack people. People impatient, they are second priority. What is the way out? July 24, 2007. Hungry and exhausted after fishing all day on the Bidyadhari river, Amirul Naiya, his two brothers and three other fishermen pulled up their country boat into a creek in the dense Sunderbans mangroves, …
